Sharukh writes that colgadas are new. I believe they were done forever, in a smaller scale, anytime you have a stop (parada) and a passing over step (posada), there is a moment, however brief, where the follower is off axis. Particularly if you were in close embrace when you did this, as the woman has no space to stay completely on axis. All that was done recently in colgada was to exaggerate the passing over step. It can also be thought of as an amplified version of a turn in which the woman is maintained in one spot on one foot and the man walks around her, pivoting her. I forgot the Spanish word for that. The only difference for the colgada version is the distance of the body cores, requiring counterbalance, and the placement of the mans steps close and around her standing foot. To me, maybe the only innovation in nuevo is the use of soltadas, and the use of other body parts to lead, as chicho sometimes does, ie, the back, the shoulder. . but even there, there is some precedent in the old style of shadow dancing where the man was behind the woman, so chicho just innovated to have the woman behind the man for a few steps. Actually, even soltadas may not be so nuevo - there were probably stage dancers who transitioned between shadow doble and normal facing embraces within a single piece, thus creating a moment of soltada. There is nothing new under the sun, so sayeth Ecclesiastes. -Martin Nussbaum _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
